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No - the Elite I picked up recently has the same size brick. Make sure they are aware and approve of you sending the PS back, or else you're going to be short a PS. Yeah, they requested it.

Hi Guys: Yep.... Microsoft did fix there models with improved chips & cooling on refurbished and new consoles. Sweet. Now buy a Xbox 360 guys (-_^) Anthony.... Then why do mine keep frying? Like I stated earlier. It seems odd that certain people cant keep a 360 working to save their lives. I swear it has to have something to do with something in the house maybe. Some other equipment you're interfacing with, network related or maybe electrical related?? Either that or some people just have terrible terrible luck. Well, my original machine lasted 2 years. It was purchased about 4 weeks after launch, so I was surprised it lasted as long as it did. I also am not a heavy user...(It gets turned on about once a week for an hour or so). My issue has been with the garbage replacements from M$. The first lasted 2 hours use, the 2nd one lasted about 5 hours use in 4 weeks. I have gotten a different machine each time, even though they said mine would be fixed and returned, so I'm thinking I'm probably getting a high mileage POS that one part was replaced in and was sent back out. Steve BTW I am sending the power supply back with this one. Have they made it smaller yet?

Hi Guys: Yep.... Microsoft did fix there models with improved chips & cooling on refurbished and new consoles. Sweet. Now buy a Xbox 360 guys (-_^) Anthony.... Then why do mine keep frying?

Sending back my 3rd xbox 360 since December! :x I spoke with a manger...she said ALL repaired consoles are updated with improved chips and cooling. I don't believe her and requested a brand new one. She refused but did offer overnight shipping.

I'm not a big fan of the "Friend Code" idea either.

I expected M$ to push more HD movies via downloads first.

The customer rep guy asked me to troubleshoot the system with him on the phone by putting another disc in I told him if he sent me a new copy of GH II I'd put the trashed one back in and ship it to him.

Received my "New" xbox 360 yesterday. Hooked it up, played for about an hour, went to put a different game in it, it started making awful chewing noises. I fought with it for 20 min to get the disk back out. Now I have another dead 360 AND a trashed Guitar Hero II disk to boot!

I bought it on Jan 10, 2005. Thats almost a year before they came out Whoops! I guess it was 2006.

I bought it on Jan 10, 2005.

There are two things Jesus doesn't like: little boys who touch themselves and people who brag about the reliability of their 360s. Expect a bolt of lightning very soon. As long as some rain comes with the lightning, that would be OK! PS: I wasn't touching myself! Well, my 360 died last night....exactly 3 weeks before my warranty expired! I'm not usually this lucky.

There are two things Jesus doesn't like: little boys who touch themselves and people who brag about the reliability of their 360s. Expect a bolt of lightning very soon. As long as some rain comes with the lightning, that would be OK! PS: I wasn't touching myself!

I must have gotten VERY lucky! I bought mine within the first 2 weeks of launch and have never had a problem

IIRC the pack-in 2 game disc with Sega 2002 doesn't work.

I have the 360 and the Wii. They compliment one another nicely. Totally different types of gameplay and almost no overlap in their library.

I hooked up a wireless 360 controller to my PC with no problems, and decided to play a little Quake 2. The game doesn't recognize the right thumbstick or the triggers. Is there any way to configure the game to have the "mouselook" option be set to the right thumbstick? The first Quake game behaves the same as well.

Doom 3 is good at co-op as well, and is B/C on the 360.

Very Nice NE! What area of Charlotte did you move into? My bet is on Matthews. You can buy a LOT of house here compared to Seattle!

With the title of this thread, I was expecting a totally different story.

Thanks for the link!! You always have the answer. I'm glad I joined this board...you guys are VERY informative!

Don't forget $80-100 for a HDMI cable. I LOVED that particular series of bitchyness. "ZOMG TEH MONSTAR CABLE AM 100! PS3 KAN'T DO HD WIFFOUT IT!111" Actually, I had no idea they were that cheap now. I don't have any equipment that uses them, I had just seen the cables at Best Buy for that price yesterday. They were in the PS3 section. I'm assuming now that they are all the same? ie the PS3 doesn't have a special end to plug into it. http://boardsus.playstation.com/playstatio...=828972#M828972 Thanks for the read CPU! I'm thinking of getting a flat screen tv. I want to run HDMI cable in my wall above my fireplace. (It's gas log so there is no chimney heat to worry about). Do they make some sort of recepticle plate to put on the wall to plug into for HDMI? This way I can put my video equipment in a cabinet with a video selector box. The tv would only require the one HDMI plug and a power pluc behind it.

Don't forget $80-100 for a HDMI cable. I LOVED that particular series of bitchyness. "ZOMG TEH MONSTAR CABLE AM 100! PS3 KAN'T DO HD WIFFOUT IT!111" Actually, I had no idea they were that cheap now. I don't have any equipment that uses them, I had just seen the cables at Best Buy for that price yesterday. They were in the PS3 section. I'm assuming now that they are all the same? ie the PS3 doesn't have a special end to plug into it.

Don't forget $80-100 for a HDMI cable.

I can't help thinking about Jack Nicholson's quote about the problems with ratings. "If you suck a tit, it's an X, if you cut it off with a sword it's a PG-13."

Oops...sorry. I didn't think about that. I sure did have the controller in slot 1. Didn't mean to confuse anyone.